With every patch which addresses the map deficiency, I make one of these posts to highlight where we stand in terms of the maps that are currently in the game, and those that are not. I then maintain this post until the release of the next patch, at which point I'll start over. In short, come here for all map news!

If I'm missing anything, or if you think anything is inaccurate, please let me know. Thanks

General Map News

"Their plan is to bring back the majority of the old maps, in exception of ancient, perhaps rather problematic maps like Komarin. Working hours are estimated to be about 19 months per map, prototyping included. Making new maps from scratch like Minsk and Studzianki usually takes less time, as replicating an old map to HD per se can take up several months." - Source: Transcript of 22Aug18 Gamescom Q&A with Andrey Biletskiy. Link

"We have a large Asian audience. So we’ll undoubtedly bring the Asian themed maps back at some point. The community seems to have the opinion that we need to do more symmetrical maps. After the exit of the map “Lost City” we will check this theory, and see if this is true. We will consider the “Pearl River” map as a returning one. “Komarin”, which is known as a nightmare, will probably not. Having a sort of map of the day function is something we’re thinking of, where we can have a favorite pop up more and not-so-liked maps go by the wayside for a bit. You can also add a finger up / finger down (voting) for a map based on the result of the battle (where there is also a link to the results of the battle, the technique, etc.). If we did something like that, of course, you wouldn’t ever get the full map selection." - Source: WG developer Q&A held at the Minsk Tanker’s Day event.Link

*Denotes what is essentially a duplicate of another map in terms of layout with only visual changes, which I think most will agree does not need to be returned. Therefore, if excluding these 4, you could say 17 maps are missing.

New Maps in Development

Note that most of these were shown a long time ago, and there has been no update in quite some time. The ones in bold have been discussed by WG in the past year.

Never seem to see most of the maps in game...always seems to be the same few...

I think there was a mod that counted which maps you played...I might look for that just in case I am seeing what I think I am seeing and not actually seeing whats there

The map rotation is a known issue for sure. Even if you play 50 battles during one session/login, you'll never see all 35 maps. The Session Statistic mods, of which there are a few variations, will track your maps played.

Thanks for the post Moogleslam. Good work, but I want Northwest and Pearl River back in rotation, revised or not.

Out of all the maps I've seen and heard its safe to say that I see Dragon's Ridge and Northwest being requested the most. Pearl River is more of a close second to those two maps.

I did a poll for this a while back, when we only had 9 maps removed, and at that point in time, the ranking of maps that players most wanted to see returned was:

Pearl River

Northwest

Dragon Ridge

Port

South Coast

Hidden Village

Severogorsk

Komarin

I left Province off this list since we got it back already, but it was tied with Severogorsk for 2nd last place. So yeah, we got the second least desired map returned, but no sign of the maps that players most wanted to see returned. I'll do another similar poll soon.

Thanks moogle. A hand full of those maps in development look quite promising. Particularly the Pacific Rim. The bulk, are giving me that classic corridor impression due to the way they implement terrain now. aka no climbing. Others just don't appeal to me at all. There has to be other games of this genre that have created historic maps. Why not build off of that if those map designs are successful?